Feedback for New Event Idea?

[Sunyata]

@bobco85 160201 wrote:

Just had this idea pop into my head (warning: you are about to see a brief glimpse into my thoughts): looking at your original request of using books got me thinking, if each person has a distinct page #, then each person is going to end up with a nonsensical “story” based on those pages. This gets me thinking, it’s not about the books themselves, how about the writing?

What if, instead of a page # from a book, each location would have a bunch of random words/phrases (maybe on cards?), and the order would be designated by the location (each location gets a number that denotes the position of that word/phrase in a story). Each participant would grab one part at random from each location, and at the end of the ride, everyone would tell the story based on the parts they found.

It’d be like a mashup of Mad Lib with the words/phrases coming from something like Cards Against Humanity (see Steve O’s cycling version for added hilarity).

Quick example:
Story: (rider name) set out on a bike ride. First, they put on (#1 clothes) and ate (#2 food). Partway through their ride, they encountered (#3 group) which made them feel (#4 adjective). Finally, (rider name) made it to the bar and drank (#5 beverage) until they (#6 action). The end.

Picking up cards at random from each location, Judd ends up with this story:
Judd set out on a bike ride. First, they put on coveralls-that-don’t-cover-all and ate raspberries stolen from the MVT by Steve O. Partway through their ride, they encountered a pack of pathletes which made them feel sticky. Finally, Judd made it to the bar and drank nectar of the cycling gods until they forgot how to clip out of their pedals. The end.

I LOVE this idea! (The thought of tearing pages out of books makes me very sad.) Plus, how fun will it be to convene at the ending brewery and have each person/team read their NSFW mad libs?!

Or… We could play with an actual Cards Against Humanity deck. Each person/team is given a black card and then each check point will have random white cards. The person/team with the best combo wins? (OMG, I am so going to do this on a MTB ride.)

[Judd]

Perhaps Steve O will lend some “Velocipedes Against Humanity Cards.”

Q: How did this get sticky?
A: Bobco’s videos on Youtube.

[dasgeh]

Have you heard of Hash House Harriers?

Those runs are somewhat similar — meet in one location, run, end at bar. For the “normal” runs, they don’t bother coordinating with the bar, but they pick bars that aren’t super busy. For special runs where they expect lots of people, they coordinate. Or when they want drink specials, they coordinate.

New District would be great, but isn’t the most central. The Westover Beer Garden is also bike-friendly, but also not central.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@dasgeh 160282 wrote:

Have you heard of Hash House Harriers?

Those runs are somewhat similar — meet in one location, run, end at bar. For the “normal” runs, they don’t bother coordinating with the bar, but they pick bars that aren’t super busy. For special runs where they expect lots of people, they coordinate. Or when they want drink specials, they coordinate.

New District would be great, but isn’t the most central. The Westover Beer Garden is also bike-friendly, but also not central.

I’ve been told that hashers are responsible for the periodic lumps of blue powder that appear on sidewalks and trails…my wife explained the reasoning of this to me at some point (I guess she’s done these events before) but I’ve forgotten and am too lazy to look it up.

[dasgeh]

@TwoWheelsDC 160283 wrote:

I’ve been told that hashers are responsible for the periodic lumps of blue powder that appear on sidewalks and trails…my wife explained the reasoning of this to me at some point (I guess she’s done these events before) but I’ve forgotten and am too lazy to look it up.

Yes, lumps of powder and certain chalk markings are how hashers mark the route (they don’t know the route ahead of time, just start and end). (full disclosure: I hashed way more in NYC than here)

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[bobco85]

@Judd 160245 wrote:

Perhaps Steve O will lend some “Velocipedes Against Humanity Cards.”

Q: How did this get sticky?
A: Bobco’s videos on Youtube.

I still shudder a bit when I read that.

[Sunyata]

@dasgeh 160282 wrote:

Have you heard of Hash House Harriers?

Those runs are somewhat similar — meet in one location, run, end at bar. For the “normal” runs, they don’t bother coordinating with the bar, but they pick bars that aren’t super busy. For special runs where they expect lots of people, they coordinate. Or when they want drink specials, they coordinate.

New District would be great, but isn’t the most central. The Westover Beer Garden is also bike-friendly, but also not central.

There may or may not be a group that I belong to that does MTB hash rides…
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